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LA Film Production Up Slightly, but TV Production Drops in 2011

LA Film Production Up Slightly, but TV Production Drops in 2011

Los Angeles film production rose slightly in 2011, offsetting a decline in TV production to help boost overall on-location 4.2 percent for the year, according to non-profit permitting body FilmL.A.

LA Film Production Up Slightly, but TV Production Drops in 2011
LA Times editor stepping down after 4 years
LA Times editor stepping down after 4 years
Russ Stanton, who led the Los Angeles Times to three Pulitzer Prizes in the midst of massive staff layoffs, has stepped down as editor and executive vice president, the newspaper announced Tuesday.
Hollywood Labor Fight Looms as Money for Benefits Wanes
Hollywood Labor Fight Looms as Money for Benefits Wanes
Bitter disputes over health and pension payments to union members have created plenty of drama in states and cities this year. But do not look for a movie about it — Hollywood will be too busy dealing with a labor crisis of its own.
LA Times Takes a Giant Step to Shore Up Digital, Social Revenues
LA Times Takes a Giant Step to Shore Up Digital, Social Revenues
As revenues from the newspaper continue to decline, the Los Angeles Times has overhauled its revenue and advertising teams to focus more on digital, social and promotional opportunities.
Arianna Huffington Loses Ruling In Fight Over HuffPo Ownership
Arianna Huffington Loses Ruling In Fight Over HuffPo Ownership
Two politicos who sued Arianna Huffington and her partner for stealing their idea for the Huffington Post will get to go forward after a New York judge refused to throw out the lawsuit.
News Corp sets up hotline for staff to report 'illegal activity'
News Corp sets up hotline for staff to report 'illegal activity'
Journalists at News International (NI) and other staff in Rupert Murdoch's media empire have been told to call a hotline to report suspicious colleagues in a fresh clampdown on corruption and other illegal activities.
Microsoft, Red Cross and UN sucked into global news fixing row
Microsoft, Red Cross and UN sucked into global news fixing row
Microsoft has been sucked into the row surrounding a London-based media company currently under investigation by broadcasters for making editorial programmes without declaring it had a commercial relationship with some of those it featured.
Los Angeles Times wins APME First Amendment award
Los Angeles Times wins APME First Amendment award
The Los Angeles Times won the Associated Press Media Editors First Amendment Sweepstakes Award on Thursday for "Grading the Teachers," a groundbreaking analysis of public school test scores that showed good teachers make a measurable difference in the class...
LA Film Production Up Slightly, but TV Production Drops in 2011
LA Film Production Up Slightly, but TV Production Drops in 2011
Los Angeles film production rose slightly in 2011, offsetting a decline in TV production to help boost overall on-location 4.2 percent for the year, according to non-profit permitting body FilmL.A.

News Corp execs think James Murdoch may leave

News Corp execs think James Murdoch may leave

News Corp's senior management is starting to think about what the company might do if James Murdoch stepped aside, so...

News Corp execs think James Murdoch may leave

KCET strikes $50 million deal

KCET strikes $50 million deal

KCET, the former PBS station serving Southern and Central California, has entered a partnership with Eyetronics Media...

KCET strikes $50 million deal

News International's chief executive Rebekah Brooks and The Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton quit over phone hacking scandal

Rupert Murdoch (center) left a hotel yesterday after apologizing to the family of a slain girl whose phone was hacked

The crisis rattling Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire claimed the two highest-level executives yet yesterday after...

News International's chief executive Rebekah Brooks and The Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton quit over phone hacking scandal

News Corporation Withdraws Bid For BSkyB

News Corporation Withdraws Bid For BSkyB

News Corporation has withdrawn its bid for BSkyB after deciding it could not continue in the wake of the phone hackin...

News Corporation Withdraws Bid For BSkyB

KCET-TV is heading to Burbank

KCET-TV is heading to Burbank

The show is over for KCET-TV in Los Angeles. On Monday officials said the independent television station is headed to...

KCET-TV is heading to Burbank

Tribune restructures media services unit

Tribune restructures media services unit

Tribune Co., the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other daily newspapers, announced a restructurin...

Tribune restructures media services unit

Los Angeles Times publisher Hartenstein named new Tribune CEO

Los Angeles Times publisher Hartenstein named new Tribune CEO

Los Angeles Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein has been named the new Chief Executive Officer of the Times' parent comp...

Los Angeles Times publisher Hartenstein named new Tribune CEO

NY Times and LA Times each win two Pulitzer Prizes

NY Times and LA Times each win two Pulitzer Prizes

The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times each won two coveted Pulitzer Prizes for journalism on Monday, and for t...

NY Times and LA Times each win two Pulitzer Prizes

CNN Reporter Likens FOX News Correspondent To Dictator

CNN Reporter Likens FOX News Correspondent To Dictator

"When you come to somewhere like Libya, you expect lies and deceit from the dictatorship here. You don't expect it fr...

CNN Reporter Likens FOX News Correspondent To Dictator

BBC World Service to sign funding deal with US state department

BBC World Service to sign funding deal with US state department

The BBC World Service is to receive a "significant" sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking o...

BBC World Service to sign funding deal with US state department

Senior journalist implicated in hacking scandal: BBC

Senior journalist implicated in hacking scandal: BBC

The ongoing newspaper phone-hacking scandal intensified Monday after the BBC's Panorama programme accused a former se...

Senior journalist implicated in hacking scandal: BBC

Internet will soon be top choice to get news in America as it overtakes newspapers for first time

Internet will soon be top choice to get news in America as it overtakes newspapers for first time

The rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the internet favourite for people seeking news, a re...

Internet will soon be top choice to get news in America as it overtakes newspapers for first time
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